Live Reveal: Euclid Space Telescope's First Glimpse of the Dark Universe

The European Space Agency’s $1.4 billion Euclid space telescope is charged with revealing the dark universe—the 95% of the cosmos we don’t see. On Tuesday, the telescope’s first images will be revealed live.

WatchFirst Full-Color Images From Webb Space Telescope CCShare SubtitlesOffEnglishA quick qualifier: Euclid’s AdvertisementAn early commissioning test image taken by Euclid’s NISP instrument.Image: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASAAdvertisementLike Webb, Euclid will image the cosmos at near-infrared wavelengths. But unlike NASA’s $10 billion observatory, Euclid will also have a visible light camera (VIS). The telescope’s image quality will be four times sharper than sky surveys taken from the ground, according to ESA. You can read Gizmodo’s comprehensive look at the new space mission The telescope’s VIS instrument will image billions of galaxies in its quest to produce the 3D map of the universe. A test image by the telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera and Spectrograph (NISP) instrument that showed just 4% of the telescope’s field of view was taken from a 100-second exposure; during Euclid’s regular operations, it collects light for about five times longer, revealing fainter and more distant light sources.AdvertisementA couple of issues arose during Euclid’s commissioning process. In late September, the team If you missed the where-to-watch information the first time, the reveal will be broadcast on ESA Web TV and YouTube at 8:15 a.m. ET tomorrow.AdvertisementMore:

Based on reporting by gizmodo.com.